Re: new version of the CPE Rtr draft is ready for review

[Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>]

On 2008-12-09 12:18, John Curran wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>>
>> The trouble with this argument is: what happens twenty years from
>> now, when multiple subnets in the home or small office become common,
>> but the industry-standard $50 CPE uses this model and cannot be
>> configured to deliver a shorter prefix than /64?
> 
> Brian -
> 
> By "when the industry-standard $50 CPE uses this model and cannot be
> configured to deliver a shorter prefix" do you mean:
> 
> 1) is shipped only with NDproxy and without DHCPv6 support, and is
>    forever broken
> 
> or simply
> 
> 2) has NDproxy turned on by default, and therefore assumes just one
>    /64 in use (until/unless the user switches it to DHCPv6)

Either would be a problem, but 1) would of course be a worse
problem IMNSHO. However, even getting Joe User to change a default
setting as in 2) would seem likely to generate a lot of help
desk traffic related to obsolete products.

   Brian